Punch Shots: Marshall Henderson has trolled us all

In this Wednesday, March 5, 2014 photo, Mississippi guard Marshall Henderson dribbles the ball in the second half of a game against Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark. Henderson, a former Mississippi basketball player, said ESPN’s coverage of Michael Sam becoming the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL was inappropriate and that he is boycotting SportsCenter. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Let us all bask in the genius that is Marshall Henderson. The former Ole Miss guard came under fire this week for tweets about video shown by ESPN of Missouri football player Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend after being drafted by the Rams.

“Boycotting sportscenter til this michael sam nasty (stuff) is off .... My brothers are 7 and 11 and saw that!!! #SICKENING,” he tweeted. This was followed by “Im sorry, but I DO NOT AGREE WHATSOEVER that should be shown to where innocent eyes can see!!!”

But the joke was on us. After a massive backlash, Henderson said he merely tweeted those comments as an experiment at the request of his friend, a psychology major, who’s also gay, of course. Aside from that being the textbook defense for someone accused of racism/homophobia/etc. (“But I have a friend who is ____!”), it’s even more moronic to expect people might believe it.

Henderson has a history of, shall we say, bad decisions.

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La Salle fans may remember him from the third round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, in which La Salle beat Mississippi, 76-74. Henderson walked off the court giving the fans the old double-middle-finger salute. Why?

“Someone yelled that my sister is a (prostitute) and said something about cocaine,” he told a reporter. Uh huh.

And I don’t even have room to get into when he sucker-punched a BYU player, tried to buy $800 worth of pot with fake money or spent 25 days in jail for violating parole by testing positive for cocaine, pot AND alcohol (must have been some party).